[webkit-dev] review flags (was bugs in pending-commit)

[Darin Adler]

On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Antonio Gomes wrote:

> I actually do not like the way the review flags are cleared today only in order to make the tools and pending-xxx pages happier. IMO the review flags give much about the history of the bug. In that matter, I dislike webkit-patch's ways of clearing "r-" flags of patches while it marks it as obsolete and uploads a new one. Reason: an easy-to-see r-'ed patch is very helpful to me to understand the chronological progresses in the bug.

I agree that it would be clearer to leave review flags for clarity about the history of a patch. I also have been irritated by our work flow that involves clearing review flags to appease the tools.

However, even if we fixed everything so that was no longer necessary, I would still want a way to clearly communicate “this patch is known to be bad and not suitable for landing, despite the fact that a reviewer approved it at one point”.

And I also think that if we were redesigning the bug system it would be good if there was a way to communicate that a patch was landed other than having a bug marked RESOLVED, because people continue to put multiple patches in a single bug, and so the bugs state can’t really tell us the status of a patch.

    -- Darin